Turning the Corner and Meeting Mr. Right

Lily was nine when James came into her life, a timid boy in a worn tracksuit whose firefighter father had died on duty. Her own father, also a firefighter, raised them together. When she was fifteen, her father died in a fire too, and James promised he would become a doctor and protect her always. At eighteen he offered her jasmine flowers and asked her to marry him; at twenty-two they were engaged, and she became a lawyer to guard him from legal trouble.

Now twenty-five, Lily returns from abroad and finds James a celebrated doctor in Azure Bay. At the hospital she meets Sophie, a pale young patient he tends with a tenderness that unsettles her. He introduces Lily as his fiancée, yet Sophie's sadness lingers.

Their wedding day arrives, but James is called away to the hospital, leaving Lily waiting alone outside the Bureau until it closes. Sophie's messages and James's hesitation make Lily wonder whether the man she has loved since childhood still means to marry her.